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How To Use blurb In A Sentence

• Blighty -- Britain; "'Bean' is one of the biggest hits to come out of Blighty." blurb -- TV commercial; "Ridley Scott started his career directing blurbs." boff (also boffo, boffola) -- outstanding (usually refers to box office performance); "'My Best Friend's Wedding' has been boffo at the B.O. Variety.com
• The former Eurythmics singer has been nominated for the Barclays Woman of the Year Award, which according to the blurb is given each year to an exceptional woman whose personal and public life has been both brave and bold. Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man'
• So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover.
• But to want to see the back of chick-lit because you've read too many blurbs that feature a single girl with too many shoes and a Martini habit is a bit like consigning pop music to the knackers' yard just because you don't like The X Factor. Should we mourn the end of chick-lit?
• The blurb makes it all sound far more titillating than it probably is, but they're right about the leather and amyl though.
• Also accompanying the typescript is a small rectangular piece of paper upon which Leinster has evidently typed an advertisement blurb. Antiquarian Weird Tales: Murray Leinster
• A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’
• Speaking of email glitches, one nearly kiboshed the lovely blurb Ken did for SECOND SHOT. Hero Worship
• He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.
• The address was seared on my memory --- 5 (a) Artemis Road --- I'd seen it on the estate agents ' blurb. RESCUING ROSE